In dozens of aid packages the 35 months, and counting, of Russia’s broader war against Ukraine, the former U. S. president’s administration. Joe Biden provided the Ukrainian military with more than 10,000 anti-javelina guided guided missiles, or ATGMS.

The $200,000, shoulder-fired missile, guided by an infrared seeker over a distance farther than two miles, packs a 20-pound warhead that can destroy or at least immobilize any tank. Ukrainian stocks of Javelins peaked in 2022, according to one Russian blogger.

But “they still have enough,” added the blogger, and the missiles turn out to be a main impediment to the Russian effort to expel Ukrainian forces of the 250 square miles they occupy in the Kursk Oblast, in western Russia.

The Russian and Korean force of another 60,000 people in Kursk has a tendency to attack the feet due to the shortage of fashionable armored vehicles. But when it establishes a mechanized assault, Ukrainian missile groups armed with javelins wait just after the maximum external lines of mine and small explosive drones. “On the front line, our tanks are attacked through the ATGM,” complained the blogger.

“As a result, our tanks can only operate from concealed positions,” the blogger explained. That is, they’re all but useless in their intended role: closing with and directly firing on the enemy.

Ukrainian air prison groups may be the notoriously bloody maximum missiles in Kiev’s 800,000 troops. But in Kursk, missile shooters also come with naval and special operations units.

In two days, a single javelin team of the 36th Marine Brigade of Ukraine destroyed 3 enemy tanks and 4 fighting cars with BMD-4 in Kursk, according to kyiv’s Ministry of Defense.

The 5th Special Forces Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine pulled the javelins at night. “Even under the canopy of night, the Russian occupiers are hiding,” said Wartranslated, an Estonian analyst.

The Russians have their own anti -tank missiles in Kursk, and many of them. “The only domain in which we are good enough is with ATGMS,” said the blogger. But some exceptions, the Ukrainians have been on the defensive of Kursk since August. Their cars do not have to hide, for front line techniques and to spread to Russian missiles.

It’s the Russians who add a few surviving armored cars, they are disproportionately destroyed through mines, drones, striations. . . and javelins.

It may not last. Unless and until new U.S. Pres. Donald Trump sends more Javelins, the 10,000 missiles Biden gave Ukraine will eventually run out. But that’s surely cold comfort to the Russian tank crews who are getting blasted now.

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